The Hermiston herald., July 15, 1937, Image 8

____THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Washington
T
25,000 Boy Scouts Have $2,000,000 Camp Party
o p ic s
CHOOSE COCKERELS
EARLY FOR FUTURE
Nat ional Topics Interpreted
By W IL L IA M BRUCKART
NATIONAL PRESS BLOC
F arm
Thursday, July 15, 1937
Base Selection on the Body,
Size and Maturity.
W A SH IN G TO N D.C
Washington.—It appears th a t an­ constantly in forcing the federal
P . J e ffrey , Instructor in Poultry
other session of congress will go by governm ent to pay the relief rolls By H F. usbandry,
N ew J e rse y C ollege of
A g ricu ltu re.—WNU S erv ice.
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without the con­ in New York city and save his own
It is not too early to begin to se­
te n d in g ,
gress and the ad. New York city budget.
lect cockerels for next y e a r’s breed­
W ill G o O n m inistration doing
Another phase of the debate ing pens. A common erro r among
anything serious should be noticed. It w as the re­
In the way of cutting down govern­ luctance of congress to reassum e poultrym en is to sell the largest
m ent expenses. T here is nothing its right to direct and control the and quickest m aturing cockerels on
th a t can be done now tow ard ca rry ­ spending of federal funds. The ' the broiler m arket and keep the
ing out the expressions m ade by above-mentioned Mr. Hopkins w ants later m aturing birds for breeders.
President Roosevelt in his m essage to be free and unfettered in his j Such a practice m ay m ean a few
last Ja n u ary when he told congress spending and those policies w ere extra dollars now, but in reality it
th a t he wanted to cut federal ex­ the ones he recom m ended to Mr. | is a very short-sighted policy.
Poultrym en who do not pedigree
penses and take im portant steps to­ Roosevelt. Consequently, with ad­
w ard balancing the federal budget. m inistration pressure on m any sen­ should keep a large num ber of the
The reason that federal spending is ators, the Hopkins idea prevailed early hatched cockerels. Rem em ­
due to go on for another y ear a t the and so for another year congress ber it is essential to retain a rela­
extraordinary ra te of the last four m ust sit back and w atch the Hop­ tively large num ber to insure a
G athered from all p a rts of the world, 25,000 Boy Scouts attended the N ational Scout jam boree a t Wash­
or five y ears is because a m ajority kins organization spend money vir­ good selection later in the year. Se­
lection should be based on large ington, D. C. Above, Scouts from Albany and Abilene, Texas, a re shown erecting th eir division sign a t the
in congress, under the lash of the tually any w ay it desires.
body size and early sexual m aturity. cam p close by the Potom ac river. The cost of the cam p and the expenses of the Scouts en route and
White House, refused to require
I
think
there
ought
to
be
a
les­
The poultrym an who practices back home w ere estim ated at m ore than $2,000,000.
states and local governm ents to
b ear a percentage of the relief costs. son in this whole situation upon pedigree breeding should retain
In other words, federal spending which the country can look back three or four of the best cockerels
will go on because congress and the ra th e r regretfully. The experience from each fem ale breeder. It will Eleven Peaches
P resident have lacked the courage gained by m aking lump sum ap­ be impossible to determ ine the best on One Cluster
to sta rt taking the federal govern­ propriations certainly shows how a fam ilies until the sisters of these
m ent out of the relief work and bad habit can be contracted and prospective breeders have been lay­ Is Farm Record
gradually restore it to the care of how difficult it is to cure th a t habit. ing at least three months. F or those
I t’s a good year for peaches at
those folks in the various communi­ Seldom in history until this depres­ who w ant to reduce the num ber of
ties who know where relief is need­ sion would congress ever vote lump cockerels to be held over the sum ­ the home of G. F. T rotter near
sum appropriations for executive m er, the only sensible basis of cull­ Wright City, Mo. They come in
ed.
There had been a very determ ined departm ents to spend as they will. ing at this date would be hatchabil-
m ovem ent in congress to compel Having contracted the habit, how­ ity of the dam and livability to date
the states to sh are in the gigantic ever, it is going to be difficult here­ of brothers and sisters.
relief burden. It took on various after to deny any President lump
form s and had various sponsors. But sum appropriations, provided only Roads Bureau Reports
the end and aim of all of them was th at he has a substantial m ajority
on Ways to Kill Weeds
to divide the cost in equitable fash­ in the house and senate.
A recent report by the bureau of
ion.
No doubt m any persons will won­
The proposal th at had the best der why this sort of thing consti­ public roads of the United States
an­ D epartm ent of A griculture de-
chance of getting through was one tutes an im portant issue. The __
offered by Senator Robinson of sw er is simple. G overnm ents a re scribes methods used by sta te high-
A rkansas, the D em ocratic leader in wasteful and the federal govern- I w ay departm ents in eradicating
,the senate. He offered an am end­ m ent, being larg er than sta te or lo- j weeds along roadsides,
m ent to the relief bill which would cal governm ents, is just th at m uch 1 Machine mowing, most generally
have required the sta te s to con­ m ore wasteful and unable to handle used, often m ust be supplem ented
tribute one-fourth of the am ount ex­ money carefully. If states and lo- . hand cutting or by use of chem-
pended in each state, with the fed­ cal com m unities have to bear ex- >cals to kill weeds not reached by
eral T reasury supplying the rem ain­ penses of this sort out of their own 1 ^ e . mower. Highways of m odern
der. When that am ount was offered, treasuries, they see to it th a t only j design, with slopes that can be
it was something in the nature of a those entitled to relief obtain it. Un- ' reached easily by mowers and side
com prom ise between proposals that happily, the national relief system , ditches that can be mowed over,
the states should b ear 40 per cent is caring for thousands upon thou- m ake m achine mowing m ore effec-
and that they should bear none of sands of men who could get jobs tive.
Burning is used m ostly to dis­
the cost. With the White House op­ and who could support their fam i­
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Carroll of British Columbia—the fa r northern p art
erating through the P resid en t’s lob­ lies but who will not do so as long pose of cut or killed weeds. V ari­
of the province near A laska—with their team of Alaskan dogs after their
byist, Charles West, and Senator as money is given them from Wash­ ous chem icals a re particularly
adaptable for use along guardrails, large clusters on his trees, instead a rriv a l in New York city, recently, by dog sled. Their sled is equipped
Barkley of Kentucky, the adm inis­ ington.
Since the national debt is at the around culvert headw alls, and in of the usual twos and threes. Miss with both wheels and runners. They have been traveling this w ay for
tration was able to force defeat of
highest point in the history of our other places not readily accessible Madeline Sode of St. Louis is shown one y e a r and three m onths, picking up data for a book they hope to
the Robinson am endm ent.
with a cluster of eleven.
finish soon.
for cutting.
Now, Senator B arkley is assist­ nation, there is a growing convic­
provem ents undoubtedly will
an t D em ocratic leader of the sen­ tion a t the Capitol that a halt m ust be Im
m ade in • present methods of weed
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a
v u i etim
u u i i e. .
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som
The
present
ate and so we had the spectacle of be v called
VALUE $1,600
trouble
is
th
at
there
are
not
yet
contro1
and new methods will be dis
one of Mr. Roosevelt’s spokesmen
enough
courageous
representatives
coverad,
say
highway
engineers,
but
being on one side and a second one
on the other side. The one who and senators to force a stoppage in effective control is possible with the
I methods now used. R egardless of
was spurred on by the President such spending.
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! methods used, they say it is im-
w as victorious.
While
the
steel
strike
blazed
forth
, P°r iant that eradication be thor-
I am not sure th a t the Robinson
proposal would have resulted in an with battle after battle, blood was 0UB^> f°r sm all patches of undam-
shed and property a6ed weeds m ay reseed large areas
appreciable reduction in the federal
B a k er Take» was dam aged, lit and offset work done
outlay for relief. Of course, it would
Besides being unsightly, roadside
tie attention was
L abor Job
have cut the total som ew hat but
weeds m ay hide highway warning
paid
to
a
develop­
not by the full one-fourth th at ap­
signs, shorten vision, and hinder
peared on its face. It was valuable m ent here in the nation’s capital—in drainage. Control of roadside weeds
as a piece of legislation, however, the governm ent itself.
directly benefits farm ers.
Seeds
because it would have required the
While all of the sensational things from uncontrolled roadside weeds
sta te s again to assum e some of the were happening on the steel front, are carried to adjacent fields by
burden which only a few years ago one Jacob Baker was resigning his wlnd w ater and birJd s Passi
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In h
n o
n c c io tn n t r n lm r n d m i r in lm t n r
they carried in its entirety. It was job
as assistant
relief adm inistrator tomobiles carry seed to distant
a principle for which Senator Rob­ and was accepting the job of chief points to infest new areas.
inson fought and it was a principle of a new labor unit to be associated ; The bureau of public roads re­
upon which he was defeated be­ with John L. Lewis and Ms Com- f gards weed destruction as part of
cause H arry Hopkins, relief adm in­ m ittee for Industrial Organization, j a perm anent roadside-im provem ent
istrato r, objected and still objects Mr. B aker's unit is to be m ade up program .
to returning any p a rt of the relief of governm ent w orkers them selves, I
obligation to the local authorities.
a labor union in the governm ent of ;
Here and There on Farm
I suspect that Senator Robinson's the United States.
R obert A. U rian, J r ., of St. Louis
activities on the relief proposition
For some years, there have been I Many poultrym en use electric
with one of the chinchillas he
will not help his relations with the m inor labor units among govern­ hovers for brooding chicks.
brought back from Chile. U rian
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White House but I think it ought m ent employees. They were affili­
spent seven m onths in South A m er­
to ' be said that Senator Robinson ated with the Am erican Federation
The m ost effective tim e to spread
G as-m asked gunners aboard H. M. S. Furious, one of G reat B ritain’s ica acquiring five of the anim als
dem onstrated again his capacity as of Labor. G enerally speaking, they poison dkan bait for grasshoppers powerful battleships, a re shown operating a range-finder during recent whose fur, because of their ra rity , is
a statesm an. He dem onstrated as were impotent and did little more is between midnight and sunrise.
battle p ractice in the M editerranean. T hreats of open intervention by extrem ely valuable. He hopes to
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well th at he recognizes the dan­ than create a dozen jobs for the offi­
Italy and G erm any in the Spanish imbroglio resulted in a concentration raise them com m ercially and esti­
g ers confronting the United States cials of the organization.
Corn now occupies m ore land than of B ritish naval c ra ft in the M editerranean.
m ates their value a t $3,200 per pair.
T reasury which at the end of the
cotton
in
the
South.
Now, however, the government
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c u rren t fiscal y e a r—June 30—had w orkers are to have a “ m ilitant,
an outstanding debt in excess of fighting labor union which will get
Duck eggs can be used in any
$36,000,000,000.
for eggs.
things done for them ." Such at recipe th at calls
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From among some of the senators least is the press agent word that
I gained the im pression th a t there is has been spread under Mr. B aker’s
The spray residue tolerance on
considerable w orry about the gov­ direction.
fruit has been announced for 1937
ern m en t’s spending and they w anted
pound of fruit.
Mr. Baker is fam iliar with the as .018 grains per
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to see the Robinson am endm ent p re­ problem s of governm ent service.
vail because they recognized it as Undoubtedly he recognizes th at he
Hens that fail to respond to good
a move th at would eventually bring cannot use the sam e methods in or­ feeding and m anagem ent during the
federal governm ent spending within ganizing governm ent w orkers that sum m er should be disposed of
control. Also, senators of that are used in private industry. If, promptly.
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school of thought m aintained th at if for exam ple, he would attem pt a
sta te s were called upon to bear strike, I think probably it would
The average hen egg is 13.4 per
some of the burden of relief, it would be the end of labor organizations in cent protein and 10.5 per cent fat.
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bring home forcefully the fact that the governm ent of the “ m ilitant,
Chicks that are confined are more
all of this spending m ust som etim e fighting” type.
be m ade up out of taxes. People
The advance notices concerning likely to develop than those that
do not like to pay taxes and they Mr. B aker’s plans seem to indicate ! run outdoors early in life.
cannot be blam ed for their attitude.
J?*** ’f S „ r , emv e r? b! l° W
Golden Cross Bantam may now
Unless they realize, however, that
considered the standard variety
borrowed money is being spent and the grades of official rank. In other
if the Baker plans a re car- q{ sweet corn in New York statp
they and their children and chil­ words,
ried out, the new union will be m ade
d ren ’s children a re to be taxed to up of the so-called rank and file, j
pay off the loans, they will not be This would seem to be an advanta- I It is estim ated th at in the United
in favor of reducing national, state geous arrangem ent because it elim ­ States 12.000 dozens of eggs are laid
every three m inutes, day and night.
or local expenses.
inates some of the dangers th at al­
The debate in the senate on the ways develop where bureaucrats throughout the year.
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proposition to send some of the re- and division heads assum e too m uch |
Although alfalfa adds nitrogen to
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lief burden back to authority.
C ity M a yo r» the states showed
the soil, it depletes the soil's supply
T here is a danger also in confin­
A r e A c tiv e
ra th e r plainly that ing the organization to the rank and of other plant foods if it is cut for
most of the sena­ file because among the less experi­ hay.
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tors a re disgusted with talk that enced labor leaders there is always
Vegetation, combined with terrac­
hunger and d istress will haunt the a tendency “ to flare up.” T hat is
land if states are required again to say, lacking experience they may ing and other m echanical m ethods
to tak e over some of this charity say things or do things which are of erosion control, is said to reduce
work. The im pression I gained from reg iettab le or which they have soil erosion to a minimum
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this debate w as that a powerful lob­ cause to regret later on. The vio­
Milk cows in the United States
by of m ayors from som e of the larg­ lence that has shown its ugly head
e r cities was turning on all of the in the steel strike proves this point. reached a five-year low of 25,046,000
steam it could m uster. Mayor La­ So Mr. Baker has his job cut out for at the beginning of this year but an
Work is being speeded on the G rand Coulee dam on the Columbia river in the state of Washington, which
increase is expected in the next will eventually cost m ore than $113,000,000. The giant concrete m ixer a t left and the second on the opposite
G uardia of New York w as the bold­ him in this direction.
three years.
est of these as he has been bold
side of the riv er deliver concrete to c a rs which o p erate on a trestle.
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